On 25/10/19 19:46, Jordi Borràs Alabern <[email protected]> wrote:
Yes, it's too complicated for me, although I was used to work with MS DOS
line commands.
You can add the Ubuntuzilla repository source and install SM with only
GUI commands, but fetching the repository authentication key needs the
command line.
Start Synaptic Package Manager. Then add the Ubuntuzilla repo
(Settings>Repositories>New):
"Binary
URI: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/ubuntuzilla/mozilla/apt/
Distribution: all
Section(s): main"
And OK (the prompts might be different with a Catalan or other language
version). Exit Synaptic without reloading the repositories.
Now you have to provide the security key. There isn't a simple GUI to do
this. So you can't avoid a terminal command: just paste the text from
the Ubuntuzilla instructions into a terminal window (Ctrl+Alt+T should
open one):
sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com 2667CA5C
You'll be prompted for your password by sudo, as when you start Synaptic.
Now launch Synaptic again and invoke Edit>Reload Package Information.
Afterwards your SM package will be listed in Synaptic as
"seamonkey-mozilla-build", ready for you to install.
PS GUI key tools
The web might suggest that you install the package gui-apt-key which is
supposed to do what "apt-key adv --recv-keys" does. However it has a
hard-coded key server that is either obsolete or unreliable (edit the
value in /usr/share/gui-apt-key/GAK/Backend.pm line 31 to specify
'hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com' instead). If that worked you would start
"APT Key Manager", paste 2667CA5C into the Key ID field and press +Add.
The only other well known GUI tool is Y PPA Manager, but it's not in the
default Ubuntu repositories and would require you to install the key for
its PPA ...
/df
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